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Food systems assessment

Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 26, 2011 at 06:44 PM

Assessing the San Diego County Food System: Indicators for a More Food Secure Future (Dec. 2010)

posted in Environmental & Public HealthPublications, Reports, ConferencesSustainability Science & TechnologyUrban Development and Planning


Measuring efforts to translate science into public health action

Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 21, 2011 at 09:21 AM

NIEHS formally launches its new Evaluation Metrics Manual(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/programs/peph/materials/index.cfm). The manual targets programs in the NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/programs/peph/index.cfm) program (see text box) with guidance for researchers and program staff on ways to use logic models to define what constitutes success and how to measure it.

posted in Environmental & Public HealthInformation & CommunicationsPublications, Reports, ConferencesResearch & Funding OpportunitiesUniversities & Engaged Scholarship


UN concerned about food riots

Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 18, 2011 at 07:16 PM

UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots. Poor harvests and demand from developing countries could push cost of weekly shop up by 10%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/05/commodities-food-drink-industry?intcmp=239

posted in Activism & Social ChangePublications, Reports, Conferences


New Urbanists verses Landscape Urbanists

Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 13, 2011 at 08:49 PM

Green building:  Are cities the best place to live? Are suburbs OK? A fight grows in urban planning, with Harvard at the center

posted in Urban Development and Planning


Linking progressive planning research to action regionally and globally

Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 13, 2011 at 02:22 PM

Creating ways to translate progressive critique into progressive action, and on a scale that can begin to transform some very powerful, entrenched forces that stand in the way.

posted in Activism & Social ChangeGrand ChallengesUniversities & Engaged Scholarship